Sizzling Summer Film Series: Wag The Dog

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Enjoy a cool drink, an introduction, and a film. In Wag The Dog, a U.S. president, facing a scandal just before election manufactures a fake war to whip up patriotic fervor and divert the public. An inside look at the spin-doctors who often control the news, it stars Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro; directed by Barry Levinson, it’s absurd and totally convincing at the same time. Grenada, anyone? (1997, 97 mins.)